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Failed Hard Drive Upgrade
Hi Team. I have an RN316 slowly built it up to have 6x 3TB Drives. (started with 3) Then I have slowly replaced the 3TB drives with 8TB Drives (one at a time) For a while I was running fine on ...
AKLGUY wrote:
Failed to expand volume with disk Model: WDC WD30EFRX-68EUZN0 from Channel 5. Volume requires drive capacity to be the same size or larger before volume expansion can begin.
Does the System to really want me to replace the last 2 3TB bays with 8TB I wonder?
Note it was telling you it can't expand the volume (which is true). Though it is a confusing message to get on a disk replacement.
AKLGUY wrote:
it is still saying I only have 13.62 TB of Free Space (while it is in resyncing)
Any suggestions I can try?
Just wait for it.
Your volume will have two RAID groups - 6x3TB RAID-5, and then a 4x5TB RAID-5 group to cover the "extra" space on the 8 TB drives. These are concatenated together to make a single volume.
The system is creating the 6x3TB group now - that has a 15 TB (~13.6 TiB) capacity. When that is synced, it will start on the second group, and you'll see the size increase to the full 30 TB (~27.2 TiB) capacity.
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